Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phonetic Extensions block: See also Cyrillic script in Unicode Greek alphabet in Unicode Latin script in Unicode References Unicode blocks